Sanskriti Foundation's Museum of Indian Terracotta is located on Mehrauli-Gurgaon Road, at Ayanagar, just outside Delhi. Terracotta artists and potters from all over India have created on location a variety of exuberant and sophisticated figurettes and panels; these pieces are housed in aesthetic mud-walled enclosures.
Entry is free, and the Foundation offers residency programs for artists and scholars to reflect and contemplate, interact and get inspired, and create.
Sanskriti Museum of Everyday Art and Sanskriti Museum of Indian Textiles are co-located in the same campus. The former showcases plenty of metal objects from the last couple of centuries, and the latter displays rich textile traditions from all over India. Here is a piece of info that is put up at the textiles hall - at the time synthetic indigo was produced in Germany in 1897, India was exporting 8 million kg of the natural pigment....
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Interesting to see your world. have a nice evening:))
ReplyDeleteWonderful and colourful work. I am glad you show it to us :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful place! And your photos are terrific! Love all the beautiful colors! Thank you for the interesting information as well, always makes the pics even more fascinating! Have a great week!
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I'm fascinated by all the works of arts coming from India. The design is intricate and very lovely.
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Great colour photos. Such an interesting place!
ReplyDeletewhat a beautiful museum and really interesting art
ReplyDeleteWonderful shots of the statues and museum.
ReplyDeleteWhat lovely work!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely amazing! What is that building on a stilt or pole in the last photo?
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Spectacular and wonderful colours. Enjoy your day.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful terracotta pieces! And that last photo shows such an intriguing structure! It almost looks like a fancy tree house!
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ReplyDeleteLady Fi, Yes, it is a bird house, and the usual birds you'll find hereabouts are pigeons.
the colours are awesome and I just love the terracotta pieces
ReplyDeleteHow awesome. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE your culture! Beautiful.
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